Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in disguise I knew her at once , for a truly sensual woman can not disguise herself from my perceptions once I have seen her . ’ |
| 2 | We all sleep , and as a rule we do it at night in one long session of up to nine or ten hours , and during the day we stay awake . |
| 3 | In the summer it was her sailing day , but in the winter she spent it at home , cooking lunch , reading the papers , and generally lazing around . |
| 4 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 5 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 6 | They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier . |
| 7 | The initial conference which launched it at Mombasa in 1968 produced a thoughtful and influential document which has done much on its own to stimulate interest and activity in social studies teaching and curriculum development . |
| 8 | Makes it pretty it improves it 's just a mou , you know mouse mat you got them at school . |
| 9 | His second outing was particularly encouraging , since the filly who beat him at Headquarters was none other than Henry Cecil 's Felucca , already a leading fancy for next year 's Classics . |
| 10 | The sort who bore you at cocktail parties . |
| 11 | The sort who bore you at cocktail parties . |
| 12 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 13 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 14 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 15 | if any of them relate to a procedure we take it at the same time so that we do n't have to do it again , or not ? |
| 16 | In the beginning they stabled them at Bakehouse Farm , on the A5 . |
| 17 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 18 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 19 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 20 | PAMELA : Whether sir , the nun who followed you at the masquerade is not the Countess of Pembroke ? |
| 21 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 22 | But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year . |
| 23 | Blessed with a constituency which returned him unopposed throughout his career in the Commons , and a tenantry which presented him at his wedding with a two-foot high gold cup , it was natural that he should suppose the keystone of the political arch to be a benevolent aristocracy . |
| 24 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 25 | Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory . |
| 26 | A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint . |
| 27 | His mentor , the man who taught him at university , is married to a woman who is half-Jewish , and their son has worked for Hess for years as his adviser . |
| 28 | I can not recall whether it was a Labour Government who set it at that figure . |
| 29 | Or : ‘ When Cupid shot his dart He shot it at your heart . ’ |
| 30 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |